Biography
After a scant two years kicking around Miami and DJing scattered gigs
there and abroad, Miguel Colmenares founded the music-and-art crew
Future Collective, got his hands on production software, and from there, it
was only a matter of months before labels and listeners alike fell for
the Venezuelan producer's singular brand of intensely syncopated
minimalism. Inspired as much by Latin bandleaders like Cheo Feliciano
and Eddie Palmieri as by fellow South American technophiles Ricardo
Villalobos and Pier Bucci, Colmenares emerged fully formed, armed to
the hilt with percussive grooves that bounce like digitized conga
drums shimmying through a steel pipeline.
Colmenares' 2006 debut, the slithering come-on of "Sure You Do,"
caught the ear of Sweden-based netlabel Subtropical's Vincent
Casanova, who remixed the track as the b-side to "Carta Roja."
(Matthew Dear has been known to drop that particular track into his
sets, calling Colmenares "a perfectionist of the simple yet
oh-so-addictive house groove.") A pair of releases on Pinksilver
followed. But after spending time in Sacramento and reconnecting with
Auralism's Jason Short, the producer knew he'd found a spiritual
home—even though he now lives half across the globe in the
Netherlands. Lately, Colmenares has been constructing his elegant
odysseys the old-fashioned way. "I've started doing more jam sessions
in the studio where I just turn the machines on and start recording
long parts on the sequencer, drum machines, and real synths. I've
found it's a lot more interactive, as well as a lot more open to
error…which in techno can sometimes be good!"
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